Human media lab unveils ground breaking technologies, in Virtual Strategy Magazine
Congratulations to Professor Emerita, Dr. Janice Glasgow!
The Queen’s School of Computing is pleased to announce that Professor Emerita, Dr. Janice Glasgow will be granted the title of Professor Emerita following her official retirement on June 30, 2016. In his letter, Principal Woolf writes: “This honour affords the University an opportunity to express its thanks to you and to acknowledge your outstanding academic achievements and your exemplary service to Queen’s over the years.”
Congratulations to Dr. Qingling Duan!
Congratulations to Dr. Qingling Duan on her award of a Canada Foundation for Innovation, John R. Evans Leaders Fund grant in support of her project “Integrative Systems Biology Investigation of Chronic Respiratory Diseases”. Qing is in the news this morning for the CFI award (John R. Evans Leaders fund) that she received in support of her Computational Genomics Laboratory.
Well done!
David Skillicorn in the news: Reading credit card data from afar
The School of Computing’s David Skillicorn is in the news today on the subject of credit card data theft. He suggested on GlobalNews.ca that while criminals can create RFID readers and gather credit card data from a distance, processing that data is considerably more difficult.
2016 Invitational High School Programming Contest
Congratulations to Team 1 from Kingston Collegiate and Vocational Institute, and coach Mr. Kevin Wood for the team’s win in this year’s School of Computing Invitational High School Programming Contest. The team easily won, defeating its nearest rival, Sydenham High School Team 2, 374 points to 206. Thanks to Mr. Wood, and to coaches Mr. Daniel Tie Ten Quee (St. Theresa Catholic High School, Belleville), Mr. Mark Lee (Frontenac Secondary School), Mr. Jon Swaine (Sydenham High School), and Mr. Matt Smith (Brockville Collegiate Institute) for bringing teams to compete in this year’s very successful contest in which 38 students in 11 teams tried to solve four programming problems in three hours. The top teams from the April 6 contest will compete in the Educational Computing Organization Of Ontario’s East Regional Contest, which is also being hosted by the School of Computing, at Queen’s on April 30. Thanks and well done to contest organizer, Richard Linley, to Lynda Moulton for arranging the catering, and to School of Computing Manager, Tom Bradshaw.
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Photos by Dave Dove.
Creative Computing 2016
Hundreds of interested faculty, students, and staff gathered at the Biosciences Complex on Thursday, March 31st for the Queen’s School of Computing’s annual exhibition of Creative Computing: Art, Games, and Research. The event highlighted the work of the School’s undergraduate and graduate students with hands-on demos, presentations, and posters from a selection of our courses, with topics including Game Design and Game Technology, Computing and the Creative Arts, 4th year projects, Human Computer Interaction, and more. Congratulations and thanks to the organizers and participants.
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Photos by Dave Dove.
In the News! Queen’s School of Computing Students Create Virtual Reality Pac-Man
For their course CISC 496, Game Development Project, Queen’s School of Computing Students Brianna Rubin (Computing and the Creative Arts), Jonathan Stanford (Software Design/Game Development), Graham McGregor (Software Design) and Daniel Clarke (Software Design/Game Development) were featured in the Whig Standard regarding their Virtual Realty Pac-Man game demonstrated in the Creative Computing Show. All four students are in the final years of their programs.
Congratulations to our creative students!
Congratulations to……
The Queen’s School of Computing would like to congratulate:
- Gabor Fichtinger, Parvin Mousavi, James Stewart, Randy Ellis and Manuela Kunz on their award of an NSERC RTI for their project: Spatially Navigated iKnife.
- Michael Rainbow (MME), Parvin Mousavi, and Kevin Deluzio (MME) on their award of an NSERC RTI for their project: A System for Real-Time Estimation of Vivo Soft Tissue Properties.
Well done!
Dr. Vertegaal and the Human Media Lab in the News!
Profile on Dr. Vertegaal and the work of the Human Media Lab, in Numrush (Dutch). Hands-on with ReFlex, the flexible Android-powered smartphone developed by Queen’s researchers was also profiled on Notable and in MobileSyrup.
Congratulations Dr. Parvin Mousavi!
The Queen’s School of Computing wishes to congratulate Professor, Dr. Parvin Mousavi, on her new research collaboration funded through an NSERC Engage grant.
NSERC Engage funding is specifically for new collaborations in research. Dr. Mousavi will be investigating a biofabrication and validation platform for 3D bioprinting.
Well done and best of success in Professor Mousavi’s new research collaboration!